Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collection: ready for productionSam Saffron Programming, Technology and the Art of Hacking The article “Ruby Garbage Collection: Still Not Ready for Production” has been making the rounds. In it we learned that our GC algorithm is flawed and were prescribed some rather drastic and dangerous workarounds. At the core it had one big demonstration: Run this on Ruby 2.1.1 and you will be out of memory soon: while true "a" * (1024 **
